Thousand Guineas 2025

Ladbrokes Tip: The Thousand Guineas Prelude is the key Thousand Guineas lead-up

This season the 2025 Thousand Guineas runs on Saturday October 18, 2025 as part of the Caulfield Cup Day card after moving back from November to its earlier October timeslot. 

2025 Thousand Guineas Odds

The latest Thousand Guineas 2025 betting odds including pre-nomination markets and updated prices on the official field following final acceptances will be updated throughout the spring below. 

The Thousand Guineas is a mile feature currently held at Caulfield Racecourse in October in the thick of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival for three-year-old fillies offering a lucrative $1.5 million in prize money.

2023 Thousand Guineas winner Joliestar

2023 Thousand Guineas winner Joliestar. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

It has been held on various dates over the years and was moved from October to November in 2023 to run on the same card as the Group 1 $1 million Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes (1400m).

In 2025 the Thousand Guineas moves back to its October timeslot joining the Caulfield Cup Day card on Saturday October 18, 2025. 

The headline race at the meeting is the Group 1 $5 million Caulfield Cup (2400m) for Melbourne Cup bound stayers. 

The 1600m set weights features was first run in 1946 and from 1988 – 2013 also took place on a Wednesday during the Spring Carnival. It has held elite level status since 1979 and notable Thousand Guineas winners include Wenona Girl (1960), Alinghi (2004), Miss Finland (2006), and Atlantic Jewel (2011).

The better fillies out of the Thousand Guineas may continue on to take on the older mares in Flemington’s Group 1 Empire Rose Stakes (1600m), a race the 2020 Thousand Guineas winner Odeum ran second in.

Thousand Guineas Race Info

  • Date: Saturday October 18, 2025
  • Track: Caulfield Racecourse
  • Distance: 1600m
  • Conditions: 3YO Fillies – Set Weights
  • Status: Group 1
  • Prize Money: $1.5 million
  • First Run: 1946

2025 Thousand Guineas Results

The official Thousand Guineas 2025 Results & Finishing Order will be provided below once the race is run and won on Saturday October 18, 2025.

  • 1st: TBD
  • 2nd: TBD
  • 3rd: TBD

Thousand Guineas Betting

Thousand Guineas betting is hugely popular each Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival and is dominated by in-form fillies coming via the traditional lead-up runs into the Group 1.

The Thousand Guineas Prelude top three placegetters always feature highly up the Thousand Guineas betting markets, as do those fillies drawn near the inside with just one Thousand Guineas winner having jumped from wider than barrier nine since 2004.

Favourites high up the Thousand Guineas odds have an excellent recent record in the mile feature too with five saluting for the punters from 2008 – 2016.

The favourites were back on top in the 2019 Thousand Guineas results with Flit ($2.35) saluting as the top elect, the last favourite to win.

There was a notable upset in 2021 however with Yearning winning at a $26 Thousand Guineas starting price, while Madame Pommery won at $9.50 in 2022 and Another Prophet was at a blowout price of $31 for her win in 2024. 

Thousand Guineas Tips

Top Thousand Guineas tips include looking for any fillies that may have recently been running against the colts and geldings that are coming back against their own kind, backing the proven milers in the race that may have contested Sydney’s Group 1 Flight Stakes (1600m) and those drawn in barriers 1 – 9.

Madame Pommery (6th in 2022) was the last Flight Stakes runner to head south and win the Thousand Guineas.

2025 Thousand Guineas Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ insider Thousand Guineas 2025 betting tips and Caulfield racing selections will be detailed below the week of the race so bookmark this page for the fillies to back and sack in the Group 1 this spring.

  • To Win: TBD

Thousand Guineas Form Guide

The Thousand Guineas form guide features all the info punters need to place a well-informed wager on the mile showdown including the saddlecloth number, barrier, trainer and jockey of all the fillies in the field.

Looking for a runner drawn between barriers 4 – 6 is a good tip as these gates have produced the most winners in recent years, while just two winners have jumped from double digits in the past decade with Serious Speed (10 in 2007) and Amphitrite (15 in 2018).

Since 2008 six last start winners have gone on to win the Thousand Guineas including Guelph (2013) who took out the Flight Stakes – Thousand Guineas double, subsequently completed by Global Glamour (2016). Before her the last Thousand Guineas champ to come via the other Group 1 was Yosei (2010) who ran sixth in the Flight Stakes before winning the Thousand Guineas as a 10/1 chance.

Thousand Guineas Form Facts

  • Serious Speed (2007) was the last winner to jump from a double-digit Thousand Guineas barrier before the success of Amphitrite (2018) from the outside alley (15).
  • From 2006 – 2024 seven favourites in Thousand Guineas betting have saluted for the punters.
  • In that time six Thousand Guineas winners started at double-figures with Yosei ($11 in 2010), Commanding Jewel ($10 in 2012), Aloisia ($14 in 2017), Amphitrite ($13 in 2018), Yearning ($26 in 2021), and Another Prophet ($31 in 2024). 

2025 Thousand Guineas Form Guide

A link to our comprehensive Thousand Guineas 2025 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.

Thousand Guineas Field

The Thousand Guineas field race attracts a line-up of the season’s best middle-distance fillies with either a winning record up to 1400m showing the potential to run out a strong mile, or those already proven over the 1600m distance.

The Thousand Guineas final acceptances are released on the Wednesday of race week with early nominations closing at the start of October.

2025 Thousand Guineas Field

The official Thousand Guineas 2025 field and barriers will be published in full below once final acceptances are taken by Racing Victoria on the Wednesday of race week.

2025 Thousand Guineas Nominations

The early Thousand Guineas 2025 Nominations are taken on Tuesday the 6th of October 2025 and are set to attract over 200 fillies.

Thousand Guineas Results

The Thousand Guineas race results and finishing order are announced on the Saturday after the Melbourne Cup Carnival in November.

As well as the Thousand Guineas winner, successful trifecta and first four you can also see the starting price and margin of all the runners as well as any scratched horses.

Notable recent Thousand Guineas winners include upset 2017 Thousand Guineas winner Aloisia (2017), Global Glamour (2016), Guelph (2013), Atlantic Jewel (2011), and Miss Finland (2006).

Arborea holds the current Thousand Guineas race record winning over 1600m in 1993 in a time of 1 minute 35:60 seconds.

Past Thousand Guineas Winners

Recent Thousand Guineas winners and placegetters dating back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.

Year Winner 2nd 3rd Time
2025 TBD TBD TBD TBD
2024 Another Prophet Aeliana Too Darn Lizzie 1:39.23
2023 Joliestar Kimochi Skybird 1:36.81
2022 Madame Pommery Revolutionary Miss She’s Licketysplit 1:41.4
2021 Yearning Elusive Express Barb Raider 1:37.5
2020 Odeum Personal Instant Celebrity 1:36.2
2019 Flit Missile Mantra Southbank 1:37.1
2018 Amphitrite Fundamentalist Seabrook 1:35.6
2017 Aloisia Shoals Alizee 1:36.2
2016 Global Glamour I Am A Star Whispering Brook 1:36.8
2015 Stay With Me Jameka Badawiya 1:35.8
2014 Amicus Traveston Girl Sabatini 1:36.4
2013 Guelph May’s Dream Gregers 1:37.7
2012 Commanding Jewel Dear Demi Zydeco 1:37.1
2011 Atlantic Jewel Mosheen Sharnee Rose 1:35.8
2010 Yosei Heartsareforlove Brazilian Pulse 1.39:8
2009 Irish Lights Melito Faint Perfume 1:38.8
2008 Gallica Cats Whisker Glowlamp 1:38.6
2007 Serious Speed Extension of Time Antarctic Miss 1:36.3
2006 Miss Finland Permaiscuous Cheeky Choice 1:37.2
2005 Mnemosyne Rewaaya Serenade Rose 1:36.3
2004 Alinghi Hollow Bullet Ballet Society 1:37.1
2003 Special Harmony Hinting Spurcent 1:36.4
2002 Macedon Lady La Bella Dama Fuji Dancer 1:36.4
2001 Magical Miss Ha Ha Li Lo Lill 1:37.0
2000 All Time High Ponton Flyer Tanith 1:36.3

FAQ

Who won the 2024 Thousand Guineas?

The 2024 Thousand Guineas was won by the Ciaron Maher-trained Another Prophet at $31 with Ethan Brown in the saddle.

When is the Thousand Guineas 2025?

Saturday October 18, 2025

What is the prize money for the Thousand Guineas 2025?

$1,500,000

Where is the Thousand Guineas 2025?

Caulfield Racecourse, Gate 22, Station St, Caulfield East VIC 3145.